Principal Investigators

    COE, NORMA B

    Institution

    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

    Contact information of lead PI

    Country

    USA

    Title of project or programme

    Current and Future Costs of Alzheimers and Dementia Care

    Source of funding information

    NIH (NIA)

    Total sum awarded (Euro)

    € 1,870,477.06

    Start date of award

    01/09/2015

    Total duration of award in years

    2

    The project/programme is most relevant to:

    Alzheimer's disease & other dementias

    Keywords

    Acquired Cognitive Impairment... Aging... Alzheimer's Disease... Alzheimer's Disease including Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (AD/ADRD)... Behavioral and Social Science... Brain Disorders... Burden of Illness... Caregiving Research... Clinical Research... Clinical Research - Extramural... Dementia... Health Services... Neurodegenerative... Neurosciences

    Research Abstract

    ? DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Dementia care has substantial economic costs, with consequences for health care systems and for the health and welfare of the families who provide the majority of their care. There are many studies of the costs of dementia, but they lead to widely varying estimates of the costs due to differences in the time-frame studied, the comprehensiveness of the costs included, differences in the quality of the data used, and the differences in the definition of dementia onset. These factors make the understanding the literature and painting a consistent picture of the future costs of Alzheimer’s and dementia care more difficult. Our proposed study takes key steps in improving the measurement of current dementia care and improving the projections of the future burden of the disease. The specific aims of this research are to: (1) Estimate how the direct health care costs of dementia care vary with the insurance and care providers; (2) Estimate the direct and indirect costs to caregivers of dementia care; (3) Produce and calibrate a forecasting model to estimate the future costs of dementia care in order to inform resource allocation decisions.

    Lay Summary

    PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Dementia care has substantial economic costs, with consequences for health care systems and for the health and welfare of the families who provide the majority of their care. Our proposed study takes key steps in improving the measurement of current dementia care and improving the projections of the future burden of the disease. The specific aims of this research are to: (1) Measure how the direct health care costs of dementia care vary with the type of health insurance (HMO vs FFS) and the care arrangement; (2) Estimate the direct and indirect costs to caregivers of dementia care; and (3) Produce and calibrate a forecasting model to estimate the future costs of dementia care that can be used by policy makers to help guide resource allocation decisions.

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Types: Investments > €500k
Member States: United States of America
Diseases: Alzheimer's disease & other dementias
Years: 2016
Database Categories: N/A
Database Tags: N/A

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